The relentless spinning of the disc wouldn’t cease.
Jelly looked at Bonnie and released her grip on the plant tray.
Tripp screamed over the incessant growling of the sun headed in their direction, “Jelly, what are you doing?”
“Need to save Bonnie.”
She launched herself toward the broken wall and held out her paws.
SCHTANG-SCHTANG!
Her infinity claws spread out into a star shape as she rocketed over to the helpless Bonnie.
“Jelly, no,” she screamed as Jelly’s face darted toward her, “Grab hold of something.”
“I’m coming,” Jelly turned over as she flew and fired off a fully automatic clip at the Shanta.
BLAM-BLAM-BLAM-SPRATCH-CRATCH!
The bullets chewed through an oncoming creature, busting its mid-section open. The pink goo coughed into the air, twisted toward the horizon and blasted toward the stars at the edge of Pink Symphony.
Its carcass tumbled across the sand like a dead bowling ball, knocking the nearest set of beasts onto the ground.
“Bonnie, I’m coming,” Jelly squealed and swiped at the woman’s shoulder with her right paw, “Grab my hand.”
THUMP!
Bonnie’s hand slammed into Jelly’s right palm. They squeezed together as Bonnie lost her grip on the wall.
Jelly caught the side of the wall with her left claw – but the propulsive force was too severe. It banged away and sent Jelly and Bonnie tumbling out of Botanix and crashing across the sand.
“Jelly! Bonnie!” Wool cried out after them from behind the plants. She fired a shot at the creatures.
GRROOOWWWWLL!
The sun grew larger and larger, throwing a Godly light into Botanix. It blinded Tripp, Jaycee, Tor, and Wool.
“The sun,” Tor pointed at the sky, “We’re going to die!”
“Kill everything,” Tripp shouted over the commotion, “Keep firing!”
Botanix reverberations punched Tripp around and slammed his back against the wall, “Gaaah,” he screamed and fired a round at a dozen Shanta creatures infiltrating the broken wall.
Bonnie slid across the sand on her back through the stampeding Shanta.
SWIPE-STAB-SCHTOMP!
Dozens of Shanta limbs daggered into the floor either side of her as she scraped the sand on her trajectory, “Agghhh, help meeee.”
A few feet behind her, Jelly spread her claws out to prevent herself from the same fate.
Bonnie tumbled forward, unable to fight Pink Symphony’s spin-pull towards the edge of its mass.
“Bonnie,” Jelly whelped.
She hopped onto the back of a trailing Shanta and dug her paws into its flesh. Her claws tore out of the Shanta’s skin as she launched over to Bonnie.
Pink Symphony’s disc tilted diagonally as it spun around. It angled itself like a radar toward the approaching sun.
SHWOOOOOSH!
Bonnie’s waist slammed against another creature, pushing her around on her descent towards the edge of Pink Symphony.
Jelly tumbled around and spun to her feet, “You’re not going anywhere.”
The sand kicked up around Bonnie’s as she zipped along the sand. The edge of the disc shot towards her feet.
“Oh God…” Bonnie rolled to her side and looked down the length of her body. Any second now, she’d fall off the edge.
SCHWIPP!
Bonnie’s ass hit the edge, catapulting her entire body around. She held out her hands and grabbed the edge of the rock-like surface. Her legs slammed against the edge, “Ugghhh,” she screamed and made the mistake of looking down – an infinite drop of intergalactic proportions threatened to take her life.
Jelly slid up to the edge and pressed the butt of her paws to the ground. She stared at Bonnie and whined, “I’m not strong enough to pull you up,”
“P-Please, Jelly,” Bonnie squealed and tried to hulk her body up to safety, “D-Don’t let me fall.”
Pink Symphony’s spinning slowed down, forcing Bonnie’s front to slap against the cliff edge.
A wave of terror blasted across Bonnie’s pupils. Frightened beyond belief, she was convinced she’d fall to her death.
Jelly looked down at Bonnie’s fingers and licked her lips, “Miew.”
She opened her paw and held it a few inches to the side of Bonnie’s hand.
“Wh-what are you doing?” Bonnie turned over her shoulder to see the bottomless pit of stars, “P-Please, help me up.”
Jelly viewed Bonnie’s five fingers as the enemy. She tried to fight against her instincts – to little avail.
Her paw tapped Bonnie’s hand, trying to release her fingers, “Miew…”
“What are you doing?” Bonnie screamed. “Don’t, please…”
“Meow,” Jelly swiped Bonnie’s index and middle finger, releasing her grip, “I need to.”
“Jesus, Jelly. Please, no—”
“—Miew,” she took another swipe and tried to knock Bonnie’s fingers off the edge.
“Nuh-nuh,” Bonnie focused on Jelly’s claw sliding under her thumb, “Oh, God. Please—”
“—Miew,” Jelly licked her lips and lifted her infinity claw, eying Bonnie dead in the eyes the whole time, “I’m s-sorry…”
“You’ll k-kill me,” Bonnie’s voice croaked as she spoke. She knew she was dead, “Do you want me to d-die?”
Jelly looked up at the scorching sun and widened her mouth. The light reflected off her fangs and into Bonnie’s face.
She saw her feet dangling across the stars and then back to Jelly. In a desperate bid to save her own life, she grabbed hold of Jelly’s jeans.
No mercy was shown from the cat as Bonnie’s fingers slipped helplessly along the denim.
“I d-don’t want to d-die…”
Jelly scrunched her face, unable to resist her instinct. She scraped the sand with the side of her paw and pushed Bonnie’s two remaining fingers from her jeans.
“Meow.”
Bonnie fell away from the edge.
Her face turned to a picture of hell. She clutched the torn fabric in her hands and plummeted from the edge of Pink Symphony and into the infinite blanket of space and time.
“Sorry,” Jelly licked her face, satisfied that she’d knocked the things from the edge.
Bonnie’s death yell funneled from her mouth as her body plummeted away, getting smaller and smaller… until she disappeared altogether.
Jelly flicked her ears and watched a tiny, new star form against the black canvas of space like a single drop of spilled, white paint.
Pink Symphony’s entire land mass lit up as the sun got closer.
Millions of grains of white sand cascaded to the ground. Jelly turned to face Opera Beta, one hundred feet in the distance.
The Shanta stopped in their tracks and turned to face the girl standing at the edge of Pink Symphony.
“Miew.”
“SCREEEEEE!”
They charged at Jelly in unison. Their new distraction would buy her crew members in Opera Beta some time.
Jelly scraped the ends of her infinity claws through the sand and flapped her tail, ready for war, “Let’s take out the trash. Come and get some…”
She ran her claws through the sand and prepared to attack, “Die, you ugly scumbags!”
ROOWWAAARRRR!
Two dozen Shanta barreled toward her as she bolted across the sand in their direction.
“Meeee-owwww,” Jelly looked above the first two creatures and saw the towering blackened tree stomp its way out of the ocean behind the ship.
BOLT!
Jelly ran into the Shanta. The first one flung its talon out and stabbed it to the ground. Jelly swiveled around and landed to her front paws, narrowly missing its stabbing motion.